Selling books and textbooks you don’t need is a great way to declutter and make some extra cash. There are quite a few good sites to buy and sell books, and BookScouter shows you their offers all in one place.

College textbook buying is an expensive routine for every student. But sympathetic professors and easy access to information tools can make it easy to find ways to cut costs. Take advantage of those tools and use them to shave some serious money off of your textbook expenses.

When it comes to saving money on textbooks, every dollar counts. CampusBooks helps out by comparing rental prices vs. purchase prices to determine which method is best to save you money over the long run.

If you're headed back to campus this semester, your syllabus probably has a list of expensive books to buy. You can make your dollars stretch a little further if you buy used or secondhand, and this week we're looking at five of the best sites where you can score cheap textbooks without breaking the bank.

School is back in session, and if you're headed back to campus and looking at your syllabus, you'll probably need a small fortune in textbooks. This week, we want to know which sites you think are the best for scoring great deals on those textbooks and saving money you could better spend (or save) elsewhere.

Textbooks are incredibly expensive (not to mention cumbersome and heavy in dead tree format). Smart students can pick up free digital textbooks from severalsources, including one we haven't mentioned before: Rice University's OpenStax College.

I've been selling my used textbooks since the fall of 2007 and have developed a pretty good method for high return. I've even made a profit on a few books because I sold them for more than I paid. Here are my tips to get the most money when selling textbooks.

Open Culture is a treasure trove of educational and cultural media. Avid readers and lifelong learners should definitely check out the site for its huge meta lists of free textbooks, audio books, and eBooks.

Amazon's new textbook rental program can save college students lots of cash each semester. The company will lend you a book for 130 days, with two-day shipping for Amazon Student members and free return shipping.

Every semester colleges require their students to acquire a back-breaking amount of books which is most easily accomplished through the campus bookstore. This is also the most expensive method, but they offer buyback programs as well so students can get some of their money back. In an ideal world, those buyback prices…

If you attend one of the dozens of universities SlugBooks covers in its web database, you're in luck. The comparison site shows you, course by course, the cheapest prices for buying or renting new or used textbooks, along with hooking you up with student sellers at your school.

Finals are nearing completion, the semester is coming to an end, and students are already stressing about what to do with their textbooks. Here are a few tips for clearing the bookshelf and earning more when when you do.